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Oscar winner Simon Hayes has become the first production sound mixer to use DPA’s new d:screet™ CORE 6000 Series Subminiature Microphones on a major feature film. The currently untitled movie, which is due for release in 2019, is a musically themed comedy directed by Danny Boyle and written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill). Although details of the plot are sketchy, it is set in the 1960s and 1970s and stars Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Ed Sheeran and Himesh Patel. Simon Hayes chose DPA’s new d:screet Subminiature lavalier microphones for this project because they deliver very natural sounding audio ...

Recognised for a career in advanced media technology [MUNICH, December 18, 2018] – Dr. Glodina Connan-Lostanlen of Imagine Communications has won the first ever Outstanding Woman in Broadcast Award. The honour is presented by IABM, the international trade association for broadcast and media technology, in association with Rise, the advocate group for gender diversity in the sector. The award was presented at IABM’s Annual International Business Conference awards ceremony on the evening of Thursday, 6 December 2018. Glodina is now senior vice president and general manager for the Americas for Imagine’s Playout & Networking Sales and Services. She ...

[London, United Kingdom – 18 December, 2018]: Megahertz Ltd, a leading systems integrator and mobile broadcast production specialist, has completed a time-sensitive project to implement a broadcast-quality studio at Havering Sixth Form College to the east of London. The studio provides all the facilities students need to create studio programmes. “We won special funding through the Mayor of London’s Skills for Londoners Programme,” said Brian Martin, Faculty Leader responsible for Media at Havering Sixth Form College. “We wanted to create a space that allows our students to design, execute, produce and evaluate digital solutions to a variety of creative ...

HOLLYWOOD, CA, DECEMBER 18, 2018 – Sound Designer and Music Producer Shreyas Srinivas first started out as a guitar player and later switched to music production. As a producer, he began doing a lot of work in post production, including sound design, sync sound and re-recording for a range of indie projects, short films and TV shows as well as a variety of Bollywood films. Recently, he used NUGEN Audio’s SEQ-S and Stereoizer plug-ins on a short film about PTSD titled, Discharge. The plug-ins helped him achieve the perfect balance between the score and emotional dialogue. “I read an article ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ontario — Dec. 18, 2018 — Chameleon, Bannister Lake’s data aggregation and graphics management solution is introducing dramatic new enhancements with a strong focus on election data. Within its election module, Chameleon Version 10 improves how election data is ingested and managed. The new release expands the ability to enter manual election results where data feeds may not be available. This is particularly useful in less populated districts or in jurisdictions where it is not practical to organize a real-time results feed. The new functionality also provides an important failsafe in situations where a data feed may have stopped ...

Tokyo, Japan, 18 December 2018 − ACCESS CO., LTD today announced the launch of ACCESS Twine™ for Car 2.0, a unique solution that combines a white-labelled content streaming service with an infotainment services platform, enabling OEMs to brand and personalize each journey. ACCESS Twine for Car 2.0 will make its worldwide debut at SAE International Connect2Car at CES 2019 (Las Vegas, January 8, 2019). Key new features include a refreshed, expandable human-machine/user interface (HMI/UI) and an aggregated in-car Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for both Android and Linux. To guarantee the highest level of usability, Twine for Car 2.0 also supports journey related ‘car retail’ services such as fuel and ...

Northampton, Ma., — Myers, a pioneer in broadcast management solutions, has announced Mike Tirrell as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Tirrell, a media industry veteran with over 20 years of technical leadership and innovation expertise, will drive the company’s corporate, strategic, and operational initiatives forward. His proven track record for Systems Integration and Data Transformation will play a vital role in advancing Myers’ next generation broadcast management solutions. After more than three and half decades, Myers continues to grow its customer base, expand its internal teams and introduce innovative product solutions. The COO role is essential to managing that ...

aCreative content company’s Director of TV and Digital Content recognized as a rising star in the media industry. NEW YORK CITY—Alkemy X Director of TV and Digital Content Brittany George was among the honorees at Cablefax Magazine’s 2018 People to Watch Awards, recognizing “Overachievers Under 30” in the broadcast television industry. George was recognized for her contributions to Alkemy X’s Originals division, which produces original and branded content. She recently produced the 6-part documentary series The 212 for Fuse Media and is currently producing a project for TLC slated for delivery in 2019. The Cablefax People to Watch Awards were ...

Matrix Solutions is set to host its third annual Media Ad Sales Summit, with ‘Digital Convergence’ serving as a key topic of conversation. The industry-wide event set for January 23-25, 2019 at the Nobu Hotel in Miami Beach, FL will bring together media sellers and buyers from across the industry to discuss TV/Radio and digital convergence, digital video publishing, programmatic advertising, automating ad/buy processes, where to find the measurable audience, and more. One of the key themes of the Summit will be ‘Digital Convergence’ including two sessions dedicated to how TV and Radio ad sales converge with digital. Each of the ...

Creative services company BigStar has added Creative Director John Leamy to its team. Leamy is an award-winning, multidisciplinary creative who is best known for his design, live show graphics, film, and print work. He brings more than two decades of experience in shaping advertising, marketing, and branding campaigns for such clients as ABC, Red Bull, MGM Grand, and LG. Leamy is currently working on the title design and branding for the upcoming PBS series, “Chasing the Moon.” Entering its 15th year of business, BigStar’s hiring of Leamy rounds out a benchmark year in which the company has expanded its footprint ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Dec. 17, 2018 —SMPTE®, the organization whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology and whose membership spans the globe, today announced that the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) plugfest, held Oct. 18-19 in Hollywood, California, marked another milestone in the development of the IMF family of international standards (SMPTE ST 2067), with more than 48 participants making progress toward interoperability. IMF is the family of standards for the exchange of component-based audio-visual masters intended for worldwide distribution — from movies to advertisements. The format is specifically designed to efficiently handle multiple-territory distribution ...

PBT EU & technology partner 4Visions created a whole new HD system – University of Warsaw selects PBT EU’s EXEcutor broadcast server range for playout capabilities The University of Warsaw has made the move to upgrade its Journalism Department to HD. PBT EU, alongside technology partner 4Visions were called on to create an entirely new virtual HD studio. The significant shift from SD has now provided them with cutting-edge capabilities in playout, recording and playback preview using PBT EU’s EXEcutor broadcast server range and 4Visions installations. 4Visions key account manager Wojciech Łazuk and technical specialist Mariusz Tomala worked ...

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, will provide software video encoding technologies to Ting Internet for their new multiscreen TV service. Ting TV will offer live TV packages with local and premium specialty channels that can be viewed on a TV or on connected consumer devices. Television services will be available to high speed internet clients via a new fiber network that is being rapidly deployed in towns and cities in the USA. The service will allow consumers to watch HD content on Ting set-top boxes and on any connected device through the Ting TV app ...

Cinemartin new Fran 8K 50 MP Globalshutter camera will be featured on a videoclip of a popular hard rock new metal musical band, to be recorded by end of December / January in Barcelona. Partnering with Mercedez Benz taxi company in Barcelona taxi.mercedes.barcelona, the clip will be published by January 2019. This company will provide mercedes benz E and Mercedes Benz class V (250d AMG) vehicles with up to 8 people (hasta 7 y 8 plazas). Fran 8K features world highest 8K camera resolution in a compact all-in-one body, expandable. Wait for January or February of 2018 to check the ...

Ideal Systems is an industry-leading broadcast, audiovisual, and media systems integrator providing innovative technology solutions to broadcast, telecommunications, enterprise, banking & finance, hospitality, F&B, retail, government, education and performance venue clients. With over 29 years in the broadcast space, the Asia-Pacific based company spans 14 offices in the region with well over 300 completed projects in its lifetime. Ideal Systems manage to stay at the forefront of technology advancements used in next generation solutions. Ideal Systems was approached by a major football body in Malaysia to provide them with a solution to record, archive and perform shot logging for all ...

New York, NY (December 13, 2018) – Stringr, the premier marketplace that allows media organizations to buy video footage from both amateur and professional videographers in an efficient, streamlined process, has partnered with Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, to provide Stringr’s customers access to Getty Images collection of over 200 million digital assets. “Getty Images is known to be one of the most trusted and esteemed sources of visual content in the world,” said Lindsay Stewart, CEO and Founder of Stringr. “By offering our customer base access to their vast collection of content that covers all categories ...

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